N O'Neill

If social media lack partial visibility, how does that affect privacy. Will the world become a good place because of lack of chance to hide bad behaviour?

Posted on March 27, 2008. Filed under: N O'Neill, R Scoble, Scobleizer, data portability, freedom, freedom to hide partially, personal weaknesses, privacy, social media, social network, social roles | Tags: Facebook, public speakers, the world is not good |

Few days ago, on social networks, I mentioned the lack of a chance to organize your contacts by the roles you have: parents, family, close friends, your clique, acquaintances, colleagues, what else. By being able to sort your contacts by the role you have for each of them, you keep the chance to hide parts [...]

some more [link] notes on social networks

Posted on March 17, 2008. Filed under: BuddyPress, Bulletin Board System, D Glazer, Debian Etch, Facebook, Google staffer, MySpace, N O'Neill, Ning, OpenSocial, Ruby on Rails, TechCrunch, Wordpress, core social network, developing a social network, facts, figures, like-a-breeze tutorial, social network, social sites | Tags: user base size |

On the subject of social sites, my current aim is to develop a freely available core social network. To be able to do so, I did some online search. I begun with a search for a Bulletin Board System based on Rails. But I didn’t go into depth until now.
What I found somtime amidst it [...]

polishing up screenshots: using the wallpaper as a passe-partout

Posted on March 5, 2008. Filed under: BuddyPress, N O'Neill, Wordpress, images, passe-partout, picture manipulation, screenshots, social network, visualization, web technique |

Aside of that Nick O’Neill mentions some plug-in that turns “a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a fully functional social network platform”, about his screenshots I notice, apparently he’s aimfully shooting parts of his desktop wallpaper too.

That’s just the old theme of doing a passe-partout, but using to polish up an otherwise [...]

keeping a user’s personal data footprint small

Posted on March 4, 2008. Filed under: C Li, N O'Neill, asymmetric cryptography, avatar, cryptography, e-mail address, handle for a user, lost-password recovery, personal data footprint, social network, social network platform, username |

Adding up onto my bare-bone social network post, reading Nick O’Neil’s blog, I found Charlene Li discussing four primary components of social networks. My own post focused on profiles and relationships (contact list) only: I declared the user name (”nick name” to be the only necessary piece of data a user needs to have in [...]